The speech In adventu Francisci III Lotharingiae, Barri et Magni Etruriae Ducis ad florentinos (Florence, 1739), by the Jesuit Girolamo Lagomarsini (1698-1773), constitutes an excellent example of epideictic oratory his time. It is address focused specifically on figure man who later became Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. This article offers a critical edition speech, translation into Spanish an...

This journal has never hitherto been published and, while it presents many interesting facts, it has little to offer of medical interest. It may indeed seem curious that have been selected by Secretary of State Edward Everett to accompany Perry in 1853 as "Agriculturalist." It seems even more strange that an observant man, medically trained, should have written a journal with practically no not...

Personal skills in rhetoric and face-to-face communication are not outdated by the development of modern media—on contrary, potential power efficient speaker is as evident today it was ancient Greece or Rome, be a student at an oral exam, applicant job interview upcoming politician on social media. Becoming good just matter luck talent; can taught developed. The article presents phenomenologica...

The present paper examines stylistic change in musical history by comparing the treatment of same motif, ill-starred lovers, a romantic piece, Wieniawski’s Legende, Op. 17, and post-Wagnerian composition George Enescu: Strigoii (The Undead) Oratory, setting to music Eminescu’s homonymous legend, which its turn, draws on Bidu’s Tower legend. Whereas Wieniawski was writing grieving soul’s complai...

― 31 ― The pen is the best and most eminent author and teacher of eloquence, and rightly so. For if an extempore and casual speech is easily beaten by one prepared and thought out, this latter in turn will assuredly be surpassed by what has been written with care and diligence. The truth is that all the commonplaces, whether furnished by art or by individual talent and wisdom, at any rate such ...

Abstract In June 1773 Doña Luisa García de Medina filed a lawsuit against the Spanish colonial government demanding return of her generous donation to confraternity Saint Rosalia in Cuenca (Audiencia Quito). This dispute provides clear testimony influence religious devotion and power female self-fashioning agency. Luisa’s piety, promotion cult Rosalia, substantial allowed establish associations...

Current paper shows that the role of ‘ritual discourses’, cultivated within families and schools in Spanish pre-conquest Aztec society, was formation warriors, clerics power-ridden people according to requirements period. The ancient discourses or Huehuetlatolli, one first educational models developed on American continente, are analysed as na oral heritage a far-gone past which should be prese...